As long-time readers surely know, I have examined the pernicious methodology of the Southern Poverty Law Center in moving from fighting Klan and neo-Nazi groups to fighting for the Democratic Party agenda against conservatives and the Tea Party.

In seeking to justify its hefty salaries, budget and fundraising, SPLC made a very dangerous leap to treating political opponents as “hate groups” and speech it didn’t like as “hate speech.”

My first post about SPLC was when Mark Potok, head of SPLC’s Hatewatch project, smeared a prominent black female law professor at Vanderbilt as an “apologist for white supremacists,” based upon a complete misreading of her review of a movie involving racially inflammatory rhetoric. It was a vicious attack, taken apart by James Taranto in The Wall Street Journal.

Since then I examined the SPLC’s tendency to exaggerate hate group statistics for fundraising purposes, including inventing hate groups in my home State of Rhode Island:

When it came to the Tea Party, I wrote that SPLC Completed Its Descent Into Madness when it called a speech by Sarah Palin at the National Tea Party Convention in February 2010 one of the landmark events in the “Patriot Movement” (which SPLC defined as Tim McVeigh-type anti-government violent groups):

Whatever SPLC once was, it now is a bastion of political hackery which, by equating legitimate political opposition with criminal violence, is doing substantial damage to our national fabric.

It is time for people of conscience to speak out against SPLC’s tactics.

SPLC continued its agenda against the Tea Party and conservatives when it persisted in claiming that Jared Loughner was “right wing” long after it was clear that was not the case.

Time and again SPLC, through its Hatewatch division, seeks to shut down debate by applying the “hate group” or similar epithets to political opponents, and those political opponents almost always are conservative.

Being labeled a “hate group” by SPLC can be devastating, because most of the country is unaware of how politicized SPLC has become….

SPLC is at it again, with a list of 18, “anti-gay”groups, 13 of whom also will make SPLC’s upcoming ”hate group” list….

Most of these groups are unknown to me, although a couple are well-known Christian groups, such as American Family Association and Family Research Council (both of these entities will be on SPLC’s upcoming Hate Group list). I don’t defend or not defend these groups because I don’t know much about them, but based upon SPLC’s past performance, the burden should be on SPLC to make the case for including a group on a hate list.

All these groups, with one exception below, were included for having a fundamentalist Christian view of homosexuality and gay marriage. Oddly, no Orthodox Jewish or Muslim groups were included, even though those religious affiliations have views not much different from fundamentalist Christians….

The inclusion of NOM on this list really is outrageous, and typical of how SPLC seeks to demonize a mainstream conservative (and in this case, constitutional) view. The explanation SPLC gives for including NOM is flimsy and filled with innuendo.

And so it came to pass, support for retaining the centuries old definition of marriage as one man, one woman, routinely now is labeled as “hate speech” on campuses and increasingly in the liberal-dominated media. Groups which support retaining the definition now are hate groups — with SPLC cited as the authority.

Chick-fil-A brought to the surface the hysteria. A company whose executives supported retaining the traditional definition of marriage was threatened by politicians with denial of business licenses, its products were called “hate chicken,” its employees were rudely confronted, and protesters outside its stores harassed and belittled those who disagreed. Now Chick-fil-A is being banned from campuses.

And in almost every instance, the justification is that support for retaining the traditional definition of marriage is hate speech, and often the SPLC is cited as the authority because it has designated groups like the Family Research Council as a hate group.

SPLC gave cover to those who use the “hate speech’ and “hate group” labels to shut down political and religious speech, and now it has spiralled out of control.

I should have been more clear. What I meant was that I don’t ever see anyone in the Main Stream Morons ever write a story that says “the Nation of Islam, which the Southern Poverty Law Center deems a hate group ….”

It’s something that would have been particularly appropriate for the “news” to say when the “Fruit of Islam” (aka “the men in suits”) were dispatched to Chicago to quell the shooting violence last month (July 2012) by the Nation of Islam.

It’s all about narrative demonization. The Loony Left is willing to use their selective outrage to attack so long as it doesn’t cost them anything (meaning they have neither morals nor ethics) and deserve to be consistently reminded of their hypocrisy. If they were to use it against the Nation of Islam, it would most definitely cost them something.

SCLC won a lawsuit against a Klan branch several decades ago, which put that branch out of business.
Ever since, Dees and a handful of aides solicit money from rich liberals with scary press releases and emails and fundraising letters.

It’s a total scam. They don’t “investigate” anything beyond the occasional Google search. Dees now moves into “gay hate” because he figured out how much money there is in those pockets, PERIOD.

When I used to do tax planning for wealthy Chicagoan I concluded that Morris Dees is to civil rights organizations what Max Bialystock is to theatrical producers. Clients who listed SPLC on their lists of charitable contributions usually had blue hair. As those who still thought the Klan was a force died out Dees had to find other dupes to support his life style. Thus the SPLC’s definition of hate changed.

I’ve always suspected the SPLC, but they finally and completely “jumped the shark” when the included Malik Zulu Shabazz, the head of the NBPP (New Black Panther Party), in a recent list of “30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right“.

Obama at one time had hung out with the NBPP. “Right Wing” .. don’t make me laugh. SPLC has no credibility.

I find it incredibly arrogant that an organization can define another group as “hating” because of their religion or the belief they embrace. Especially when that group has never injured or oppressed another person during its existence. Just like “anchor babies” has been redefined, so has the term “hate” been given a new defintion by the SPLC. Hate means anyone who disagrees with them. I can hate the vice without hating the person but the SPLC personalizes it. I wrote them this evening and registered my disgust with their way of thinking.

It seems like the left has really lowered the bar on what constitutes hate and bigotry. Back in the day, you had to actually, you know, hate people, and maybe even oppress them for good measure. Now all you need to do is fail to offer your full-throated support for gay marriage and you’re the moral equivalent of Bull Connor (which party did he belong to again?). Bigotry just ain’t what it used to be:

SPLC defines ‘Anti-Gay’ as hate, straight up (pardon the pun). Supporting traditional marriage pretty much means you don’t support gay marriage. Therefore, failure to support = ‘Anti-Gay’ = HATE, no matter whether done as a matter of conscience based on religious beliefs, whether or not any overt act of violence against any individual has ever been committed. Such is SPLC logic, at least as it applies to gay marriage. This is ‘thought police’ stuff, demonizing differing ideas and opinions – in the name of diversity.

They also have a cute category called ‘General Hate’, and many entities labeled as ‘Anti-Muslim’ (including Pam Gellar, of course), but try as I might, I can find no ‘Muslim Fundamentalist’, ‘Jihadist’, or ‘Anti-Christian’ hate groups. I guess they don’t exist. They pad their numbers by including trivial ‘right wing’ groups of miniscule membership. They do list the Nation of Islam & NBPP as hate groups, give ‘em that – but under the hate category of ‘Black Separatist’, much less threatening a label than ‘Anti-Insert-Favored-Group-Here’. Christians stopped burning witches hundreds of years ago, while Muslims continue to persecute women and LGBT’s to this day and get an apparent pass from SPLC.

Here’s the Mission Statement which earned FRC the ‘Hate Group’ label:

“Family Research Council (FRC) champions marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society. FRC shapes public debate and formulates public policy that values human life and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family. Believing that God is the author of life, liberty, and the family, FRC promotes the Judeo-Christian worldview as the basis for a just, free, and stable society.”

Scary stuff, huh?

Closing question: Have you ever heard of a hate crime committed by a Radical Traditional Catholic?

Is there any recourse for a group put on such a “black list” that defames or damages the group’s name and/or reputation?

I am not implying that the SPLC’s categorization of FRC is excuse, cause, or in any other way related to today’s shooting, but does it take that level of connectedness for a group to take another to task – even sue – for defamation?

Just wondering. Law suits are not desirable, but often they are needed to preserve reputation, as well as to deter such outrageous, damaging, defaming labeling.

The forces of evil will forever disguise and hide their true nature of politically motivated hatred, via venomous projectionism- the kind that Hitler used and perfected against the Jews in the 1920’s and 30’s.

The message of their projected hate will just fuel the fires of the ignorant who become pitch fork wielding mobs in the streets, in govt, in society until it ends in another Holocaust.

Good people will know this hate filled lie when they hear it and see it. Of course, it is the naive and indifferent that are most susceptible to this vile hate filled projectionist propaganda, in all areas of public societal life.

No matter who says it, it is what it is, and the truth about what the message says, says everything about the messenger who says it.

People must stop sticking their heads in the sand and pretend that evil is always somewhere else, instead of right in front of their eyes and ears. This kind of indifference and cowardice upon the people to stand up and be heard in a nation is what allowed Hitler to rise in.

Thus good people must rise against it, condemn it, and denounce those who proliferate it, promulgate it, disseminate it, and expose it for what it is, the politically motivated hatred and intolerance disguised as the self-righteous indignation, when in fact it is the opposite, to create a toxic poisonous atmosphere upon their innocent victims. This is exactly how Hitler and the Nazis’ destroyed the Jewish population, and other such undesirable people in Europe.

Evil is as evil does. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Remember that the SPLC is a group of people with opinions….opinions. Nothing more.

These opinions say more about them than they say about that on which they opine. Not to be taken seriously by anyone except themselves. Why anyone pays any attention to these folks is a mystery. We are smart enough to do the research and make up our own minds.

I mean, aside from the fact that they are liberal tool, why even think about them. They are to be dismissed as irrelevant.

I suspect the hate started with the Clinton impeachment. The start of Move on . Org. Next the 2000 election where they learned of the Electoral College. Thru these 2 Constitutional provisions they had never before even thought thru nor considered the Constitution nor how it could thwart their wishes. Then they get the 1st black president with a dem congress elected and they think finally they can do as they please. That we understand the Constitution and use it to thwart their wishes turn them to hate both.

The SPLC does have a very thorough team investigating violent and radical organizations of all stripes.

Since when? What would make you believe such a thing?

They have a well-earned reputation.

Do they? When was it earned? If it was, it must have been before my time, but you know what? I don’t believe you. I don’t believe that it was ever earned. Why should I? I see how it is now, a completely useless pack of vicious liars, who simply make up “hate groups” that don’t exist, and yet people speak highly of it. So why shouldn’t I assume that the same was true in the golden olden days, that mythical past when it supposedly did good work? We know that Walter Cronkite was as big a liar and traitor as Dan Rather, he just never got caught; so why shouldn’t I assume the same is true for Mo Dees?

I just finished serving on a jury with an older woman who absolutely believes in the SPLC. I tried to tell her about how Prof Jacobson exposed their fraud in Rhode Island, but she refused to listen. When I warned her about their finances she did say she doesn’t give them any money.

There’s a TownHall article out discussing the similarity of Barack Obama’s campaign to George McGovern’s in 1972 in which the Liberal elements then, that had seized control of the Democratic Party, during and immediately after the Chicago Convention Riots in 1968 were determined to impose their new morality upon America in order to better accomodate their lifestyle. Mr Obama has picked up that 1972 campaign baton, or more correctly, campaign cudgel, again this year, determined to impose that new morality upon all Americans along with his shared prosperity in which all members of the Collective work, not exclusively for themselves as before, but for the good of the entire Collective. It makes little difference to Mr Obama and his Liberal base whether they be imposed under pain of a jail term or at the point of a gun. Mr Obama’s Liberal base, whenever and wherever they be found will gladly pick up their cudgels in a collaborative effort to level every mountain and fill every valley in order to make straight the way of their Chicago Jesus.